Over half of consumers who complained to their insurer last year were unsatisfied with the way their case was handled, according to the ABI's latest Customer Impact Survey Report.
The results reveal 3% of customers have made a complaint to their provider in the past 12 months and over half (55%) felt their complaint had been handled "poorly". Only 4% of customers felt their complaint had been handled excellently. As with last year's results, a consistent 86% of customers "strongly agreed" or "agreed" their insurer was "easy to do business with", while just over three quarters (76%) felt their provider "really cares about its customers" and 86% believe their provider "treats customer fairly". Views of companies' payment process saw the biggest improvement from l...
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